lodgement

plural lodgements

1. countableuncountableBritish spelling of lodgment.

   1934, T. S. Eliot, Chorus VII from 'The Rock' in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, p. 162, and man without GOD is a seed upon the wind: driven this way and that, and finding no place of lodgement and germination.

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   And in thy stead I've got a deal of judgment, / Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgement.

   1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza CCXV, page 110

   Is Envy then such a monster? […] since its lodgement is in the heart not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.

   1924, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.